David Pocock delivers climate warning in first Senate speech: 'Brink of collapse'

Independent ACT senator David Pocock has given his first speech in the  Senate, warning a sixth mass extinction event is under way. 'Today the systems that sustain life on earth are on the brink of collapse,' Pocock said. 'The climate as we know it is breaking down and the impacts are now being felt with distressing regularity.' 

A request made by Pocock for an Auslan interpreter to translate his speech was denied by the major parties, who were worried about the 'precedent' it would set. The government offered to have screens on the floor of the Senate displaying an interpreter as a compromise





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